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UPDATE: Emma Stone Battles the Undead Once Again in ‘Pride, Prejudice and Zombies’
Update: The star apparently has PASSED on the role….
After kicking undead ass in Zombieland, Emma Stone is set to do battle with the living dead once again in Lionsgate’s Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (a much cleaner title), reports Variety. She will star as “Elizabeth Bennet” in the Craig Gillespie-directed adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s historical retelling.
The pic is a spinoff on the Jane Austen novel — with the twist that Bennett and Mr. Darcy are fighting off zombies. The story’s set in an alternate version of 19th Century England that features deadly ancestors roaming the countryside.
Natalie Portman, Annette Savitch, Richard Kelly, Ted Hamm and Sean McKittrick are producing through Portman’s Handsomecharlie Films and Kelly’s Darko Films.
Dan Stevens is everywhere lately, from Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire to Abigail and the upcoming Cuckoo. We’re not complaining. Up next? He’s starring in horror movie The Ritual.
Al Pacino and Dan Stevens have both joined the cast of the upcoming exorcism horror movie from XYZ Films and director David Midell, Variety reports this afternoon.
Based on a true story, the film “follows two priests — one questioning his faith (Stevens) and one reckoning with a troubled past (Pacino) — who must put aside their differences to save a possessed young woman through a difficult and dangerous series of exorcisms.”
Variety details, “The film is an authentic portrayal of Emma Schmidt, an American woman whose demonic possession culminated in harrowing exorcisms. Her case remains the most thoroughly documented exorcism in American history.”
David Midell and Enrico Natale wrote the screenplay for The Ritual.
XYZ Films is planning to release the horror film theatrically in 2025.
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